Author Appearnces
October 1 - 3, 2009
The Danish American Heritage Society international Conference
"Innovation, the Danish Way”
Radisson Plaza Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Joy's presentation:
Hans Christian Andersen: Transformation, Imagination, the Quintessence of Danish Innovation and Ingenuity
Hans Christian Andersen's stories represent literary archetypes of Danish innovation.
Andersen uses imagination and ingenuity to transform both the internal (psychological) and external environments to personal and social advantage, thus improving individual and social
well being.
His heroes, who are clever rather than strong and handsome, establish ingenuity as the most precious heroic trait.
Requisites include a penchant to take necessary risks, truthfulness, and understanding/accepting human nature.
While Hans Christian Andersen's stories reflect Danish traits, they also reinforce and
create a deeper sense of what makes life worth living.
The ability to see things differently, to perceive the extraordinary in the ordinary, is basic to Danish ingenuity.
Joy Ibsen, editor of Church & Life and co-author with her father Harald Ibsen of Unafraid, published May 2009 by Wipf and Stock.
The book combines selections from her father's sermons with Joy's fictional and autobiographical accounts of what is really going on in the hearts and minds of listeners.
Harald Ibsen (1898-1972) was a minister in the Danish (American) Evangelical Lutheran church.
The title "Unafraid" is taken from the well known Danish hymn, Altid Frejdig.
The singing sessions will open both Friday and Saturday mornings.
Glen Henriksen will play piano.
Contact:
Susan Jacobsen
Chair DAHS Conference Program Committee
515 Fifth Ave SE #1
Minneapolis, MN 55414
susan.jacobsen@gmail.com